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Your cart is empty.S. Johnson
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2025
If you (or your child) need something nearby to keep your hands busy, these rings have their benefits, but they stretch out of shape pretty quickly.On the positive side, they’re small, inconspicuous, and noiseless, so a good choice for situations when you need a fidget that won’t distract coworkers or classmates.On the less positive side, they’re too thick to wear comfortably on your fingers (though presumably the idea is not to wear them all the time but to carry them in your pocket until you need a distraction). If you want to actually wear them, they work better as bracelets than as rings—and yes, they’ll easily fit on your wrist. Fully stretched, they’re nearly 18 inches in circumference. They even work as hair ties, though if you want something to use as hair ties, it probably makes more sense to buy actual hair ties. (Follow me for more useful tips.)On the negative side, it doesn’t take long to permanently stretch them out to the point that you can’t wear them on your fingers even if you want to. In the photo, the yellow ring is a new one fresh out the package and the blue ring is one I played with intermittently for two days, already stretched out so it’s much bigger and looser than the yellow one.To be fair, I manhandled that blue one pretty aggressively because I wanted to find out how durable the rings are. I repeatedly stretched that ring as far as I could. (Verdict: the first few times you stretch them out as far as they’ll go, they immediately pop back to their original size. After a few more stretches, they’ll pop back to slightly bigger than their original size, then sloooooowly contract some more. Yet more stretches, and they reach the point where they won’t go back to the original size at all.) I twisted it in the wrong direction to see if it would kink. (Verdict: yes, but so far, I’ve always managed to unkink it.) I tried using it as a hair tie. (Verdict: it works, but wrapping it around your hair enough times to keep it in place stretches it out of shape even faster than playing with it normally.) I deliberately tried to break it. (Verdict: I couldn’t, but someone with stronger hands than mine possibly could.)So, should you buy these? If coil rings are the only fidget toy you’ve found that will calm down your anxious child or keep you from biting your nails or whatever, then yes, buying these is a no-brainer. Just keep in mind that if you want them to fit your fingers, you’ll have to either handle them gently or accept the fact that you’ll need a new one every couple of days. But if you just like experimenting with different fidget toys, I can't wholeheartedly recommend these. There are plenty of other options for fidget toys that are probably a better use of your money because they’ll last longer than two days even if you handle them them roughly.
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